Panic Room Poster Analysis.

The Panic Room poster shows the main character played by Jodie Foster lying down, whilst a dark character we associate with being someone sinister looms over her standing in a doorway. It gives the impression he is an intruder and unbeknownst to him, Jodies character has realised he is there. This gives a basic impression of the plot fot the entire film.

Technically the poster follows the rule of thirds, the hot spots outline the looming man and come down to Jodies right eye, this draws the viewers eyes to the sinister character and Jodies awarness of him. When first looking at the poster the audience read the name "Jodie Foster" and come down across the poster and then back right to read "Panic Room" this obviously highlights the films to major pulling points, its A-List main actor and the films name, and director. This will appeal particually to fans of Jodie Foster and the director. Also Foster is a well known thriller actor, this tells the audience that if she is in the film it must good.

The colour pallet for the poster is very dull, lots of dark colours including blues and greys place the film in the thriller genre and show the film to be a frightining and dark, another major pulling point. "Panic "Room is in red as opposed to the rest of the writing which is in white, this helps it to stand out. Also red as a colour shows passion and anger. This tells the viewer that the film will also be action packed.

The door the intruder stands in does just that, paints him as an intruder as we symbolise doors as entrances often to private or safe places.
The fact the doorway is wide open also makes the audience uneasy as a wide open doorways give the feeling of unprotection and exposure.

Skins Trailer: Youths!

Media Analyasis:

SKINS TRAILER

Representation Of Teens.

mis-en-scene:

the costumes in the trailer are all bright coloured, this indicates to the audience that the people featured are exciting and vibrant, as opposed to if they were wearing duller colours such as black or brown (we see these colours assosicated with adults, in the case of skins teachers, who are pitted as the nemisis of the main characters). The girls in the trailer are mostly wearing nothing but underwear again this shows them to be exciting and daring, not caring about the standards of polite society. The actions of the entire group are seen to be stereotypical acts of youths today, sex, drinking and drugs are just some of the things we see the cast do. This reinforces the views the costumes give us and adds a sense of verisimilitude to the trailer. The lighting throughout is changing between high key and low key, this adds a sense of disorder to the trailer which how the viewer is supposed to see the youths and the party.

editing:

There are many jump cuts in the trailer this keeps pace going, never focusing on one scene for to long, again like the lighting reinforcing the crazy nature of the party we are witnessing.

sound:

Throughout the trailer we hear "Standing In The Way Of Control" by The Gossip a song about rebelling against the system, which the youths are by commiting a party and doing acts that are frowned upon, this reinforces the negative stereotypes of teenagers in a senior generations eyes, whilst appealing to the younger generations who are the target audience for this particular program. The song choice also adds verisimilitude as it is a song many of the characters would listen to themselves.